It's very nice. I'd like the feature to set some "fixed time off" (e.g. school is closed) and substract them from my days of.
Show HN: Stretch My Time Off – An Algorithm to Optimize Your Vacation Days
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#62Awesome site! One nitpick: Could you please just use `Taiwan` instead of `Taiwan, Province of China`. Thanks!
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#63Really neat idea! However, half of the world has Monday as the first day of the week. A setting to change that would be nice :)
Also there are some holidays missing for Sweden. This is stated in the Swedish Annual Leave Act, which establishes that Midsummer's Eve as well as Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve is to be considered equivalent to a Sunday.
https://www.government.se/contentassets/eaf3467d4f484c9fb727...
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#64Ha, this reminds me of a very similar practice I used to engage in with a few buddies when we started work. It was always fun to try to figure out how to optimize the PTO to get the “most days per day”. Nowadays, I find that the best time to take PTO is when I feel like taking PTO. Taking a long weekend when I’m feeling burnt out or disengaged goes much further for me than grinding for the entire first half of th yea…
Agreed, in Switzerland this idea of "stretching" is common but I find it stupid. Weather going to be bad? Doesnt matter, I can stretch my total time off 3 days more!!! Total off season to where I am traveling to? Doesnt matter, I get that single extra "bridge" day! Man so cringe. I don't know, seems much easier that if you dont want to work then don't! I mean the tool OP posted recommended 2 weeks off at the end of M…
>>I mean the tool OP posted recommended 2 weeks off at the end of March into April on the easter holiday (because of the friday and monday holiday)... who is honestly doing that?
sad parents tied to school holidays noises.
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#65Found you a fun edge case in France: your tool doesn’t know how to faire le pont. Holidays here often land on a Thursday. It’s generally agreed to not be worth the effort to get back into work mode for just one day, so everybody takes Friday off too. (Thus, “making the bridge) This doesn’t count against your vacation time. Even schools take the days off. Holidays seem to be scheduled this way intentionally, and somet…
That's wrong, the pont isn't free. Your employer uses one of your RTTs.
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#66Cool. But I absolutely HATE geolocation via IP.
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#67This is really cool! I might use this to help plan some of my 2025 vacations
Some suggestions for useful features:
- Ability to customize the work week. I only work Mon-Thurs, which will greatly affect the optimal solution
- Add arbitrary holidays in case the company gives an extra day off, this would nicely complement the existing feature to turn off some holidays
- Select an arbitrary time frame less than a year long. This would be helpful especially to plan end-of-year vacations
- In addition to or instead of the previous point: input what vacations you already have planned. Obviously I can't always take only the most optimal vacations, but I could potentially make my existing ones more optimal by extending them in some cases
Thanks for sharing it! Really cool idea, I've only done this kind of planning ad-hoc in my head, it never occurred to me to solve it exactly
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#68Something is strange in the math for "Let's stretch your time off from X days to Y days" I am in the US, and it says I have 11 days off. If I say I get 0 days off, it says: "Let's stretch your time off from 0 days to 18 days". It looks like it's counting the weekends prior to a holiday no matter what as a "bonus" day, which is a strange methodology to me. (I would expect that it would only count days that it performe…
The tool is great, I would definitely use it couple of times a year to see the "pattern" :) The design is great!
Adding to the comment on "calculations". Perhaps the wording could be improved, now it feels a bit like a dark pattern in sales.
This is not the best version, but explains what I mean:
"Let's turn your X days of time off into Y days of holidays."
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#69Nice tool! Some feedback:
- The subtitle telling me I can "stretch [my] time off from 20 days to 42 days" is quite misleading. This tool doesn't magically give me more vacation days.
- Much of the page isn't helpful (in NL there are 6 consecutive months without holidays), would suggest only showing months where "stretching" is possible.
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#70Wanted to check what my holidays would have looked like before Christ, but I was able to break it completely by setting year -1 xD
A quick snippet for console if you really want to break it like me:
for(let i = 0; i div:nth-child(1) > main > div:nth-child(2) > p > span:nth-child(4) > button:nth-child(1)').click()